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Images and videos from my laboratory experiments and simulations of mantle plumes. Click an image to enlarge it.

A thermal plume imaged by shadowgraph

Plumes and background stirring imaged by particle image velocimetry

Rising lab plumes imaged by bubbles from a rigid half sphere

Stereoscopic view of an illuminated plane with thermal plumes

Stereoscopic view of an illuminated plane with thermal plumes

Onset of convection imaged by thermochromic liquid crystals

Onset of convection imaged by thermochromic liquid crystals

Finite-time Lyapunov exponent field (left) and plume clusters (right) showing dozens of plumes

Finite-time Lyapunov exponent field (left) and plume clusters (right) showing dozens of plumes

Visualizing a plume with thermochromic liquid crystals